A Senior Data Scientist position is on offer by a well know group of companies based in Wimbledon. They are one of the market leaders in their field and are often seen as pioneers in their industry for data science.

The Senior Data Scientist is a key role to provide technical depth and industry experience for the data science team whilst overseeing key projects and helping to generate idea’s. Projects will work across the group utilising well design big data systems which actually work.

This is a hands-on role and so an interest in building intuitive and creative data science solutions to a whole variety of needs.

Experience with tools like Spark, Scala, Java would be useful but open to all backgrounds and tools. They are very agnostic in tool choice and want to be led by you on what you want to use. They want to use the best tools for whatever the project requires.

Project wise they are working across a variety of areas such as: Personalisation and recommendations, customer behaviour / propensity models, KYC and AML, payment/transaction fraud detection, novel customer segmentations.

They have had a high performance big data set up for many years and are considering moving to a more sophisticated system such as CockroachDB.

They invest heavily into their staff by offer training, paying for you to attend conversances worldwide and are redeveloping their offices to offer the very best work environment.

The company is growing year on year and given their success want to push the limits of what they can achieve with data science.